Thursday, March 6, 2014

Staff Appreciation Lunch

Staff are invited to the Staff Appreciation Lunch.

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Time:
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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This event is brought to you in collaboration with Sabor, Harambee, Oxypreneurship, African Students Association, Los Compadres, Zeta Tau Zeta, Delta, Caribbean Students Association, Project Eden, Challah for Hunger, Intervarsity, the Office of Religious and Spiritual life, ASOC Senate, the President's Office and the Bookstore.

Talking about Teaching: Enhancing the Academic Experiences and Success of Low-Income Students

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Talking about Teaching: Enhancing the Academic Experiences and Success of Low-Income Students

Faculty may RSVP to Kristi Upson-Saia, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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Time:
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM

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At this Talking about Teaching lunch (co-sponsored by the CTE & Institutional Research), we’ll examine data on the income spread of Oxy students, discuss the experiences of low-income college students, and strategize ways faculty can support these students in order to facilitate their success. We will use institutional data and a few short readings as a launching point for our conversation.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Dr. Amy Lyford on Arts, Politics, and Action

The Oxy community is invited to attend a talk by Dr. Amy Lyford on "Arts, Politics, and Action" that will ask the question,"What matters to me and why?"

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Time:
8:00 PM

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Amy Lyford is a Professor of Modern Art History. She graduated with a BA from Pomona College, and went on to earn an MA in Art History from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of two books: Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France (UC Press, 2007); and Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930-1950 (UC Press, 2013).

Thursday, March 6, 2014 - Friday, March 7, 2014

Geographies: A Literary Panel

On March 6th, 2014, four highly-regarded American fiction writers - Percival Everett, Janet Sarbanes, Danzy Senna and David Treuer - will gather at Occidental College to read from their work and to discuss the theme of geography in their writing.

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Time:
All Day

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We will consider geography both on its most literal level, as the physical locale of a work, but also in the broader sense -- as the territory of identity. In an increasingly peripatetic world, how do forms of identity -- blackness, motherhood, Indian-ness, queerness, biraciality - function as a kind of new geography, transcending the local or regional? Why might it be more helpful to think of these identities as "geographies" rather than "subjects" of a given work? We will also discuss the formal choice to remove geographical specificity from a work: How and why might a writer resist being "located" either thematically or geographically? Authors will discuss the 'geographies' -- literal and figurative-- that have influenced their work.

Authors:

Percival Everett is the author of more than twenty novels, three collections of short fiction, and two volumes of poetry. Among his novels, all published by Graywolf, are Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (2013), Assumption (2011), I Am Not Sidney Poitier(2009), The Water Cure (2008), Wounded, Glyph, Erasure, Zulus,Watershed, and God's Country. He is the recipient of the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the Academy Award from an American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, The Believer Book Award, The Vallombrosa Von Rezzori Prize, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, and a New American Writing Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories. He has served as a judge for, among others, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991. He teaches fiction writing and critical theory and is currently Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Janet Sarbanes is the author of the short story collection, Army of One, and has published ficiton and scholarly writing in journals such as Black Clock, Luvina,Zyzzyva, Afterall, East of Borneo, Journal of American Woman Writers, Utopian Studies and Popular Music and Society, as well as various anthologies and artist monographs. Janet presently serves as Chair of the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program and on the board of Les Figues Press.

David Treuer an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of three novels and a book of criticism. His essays and stories have appeared in Esquire, TriQuarterly, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and Slate.com. His third novel The Translation of Dr Apelles and a book of criticism, Native American Fiction; A User's Manual appeared in 2006. The Translation of Dr Apelles was named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Time Out, and City Pages.

Danzy Senna is the author of the national bestselling novel, Caucasia, winner of the Book of the Month Award for First Fiction and the American Library Association's Alex Award. A recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award, Ms. Senna is also the author of the novel Symptomatic, and the memoir, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History, which she wrote as a fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Her essays and stories have been widely anthologized, and have appeared in magazines and journals, including Ploughshares, Vogue, The Nation, and The New York Times. Her latest work, a story collection, You Are Free, was published by Riverhead Books in 2011. She is currently the Writer-in-Residence at Occidental College.

Friday, March 7, 2014

Peter Jan Honigsberg presenting: "Witness to Guantanamo"

Peter Jan Honigsberg is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco, author of the book "A Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror", and founder of Witness to Guantanamo, the only project systematically filming and preserving interviews of former detainees, family members, interrogators, guards and others connected to the US's military detention center in Cuba.